The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 339: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM. HONG-KONG. $33 haste to get under shelter there seems a strong possibil- ity that a second or third missile may find lodgment somewhere along his person. sandy, like every other canny Scot, is a man gifted with a rare degree of caution. He has surveyed this side of the gulch before trusting . himself to enter upon the game. Consequently he has a little scheme mapped out that he expects will cover his retreat. Close by there is a crack in the wall, a crevice some two feet in width, but which promises an asylum where he may be free from this target business; for, however interesting it may seem to crack away at a fellow who dances like a harlequin, it is somewhat different when the boot is on the other leg, and one finds himself the object of warm attention. sandy plunges for the opening with all the avidity of a man who has drawn a prize in the lottery, and fears lest it may give him the slip. Some shots followed his departure, but whether the ‘brawny Scot is injured or not those who are watching: cannot Say. Left to itself the fire on the ledge burns out and slowly the same pall of darkness settles over the scene. On the whole, the besieged have thus far shown them- selves well able to keep alongside their enemies, and meet cunning with its like. « | Would these shrewd schemers now rest on their oars, thinking to starve them into submission? Perhaps they might deem this good policy. The minutes pass by, and not a sound is heard to in- dicate their presence near by, yet General Lopez stumps up and down, fuming over his inability to meet Sefior Enrique face to face, and lamenting the cowardly dispo- ‘sition of their adversaries that compels a fight behind barricades. : The madam has changed her tune—she now continu- ally laments a raging thirst that is consuming her, and repeats over and over again: ~ “Oh! I am so thirsty—will no one get me a drink?” | ' they. have..not a drop of water with them, and Alas y P comicbooks.con